ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO BY ALVIN YANG
FALL 2010 - SPRING 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOURTH YEAR:
BORDER PLAZAS PROFESSOR KREVLIN
CITY BLOCK PROFESSOR COLLINS
THIRD YEAR:
TOPOGRAPHIC EXTENSION PROFESSOR LLONCH
BACKYARD PARK PROFESSOR VOLKMANN
SECOND YEAR:
POOL HOUSE PROFESSOR HARITOS
YOUTH CENTER PROFESSOR DI ORONZO
GARDEN TOOL PROFESSOR DI ORONZO
FIRST YEAR:
WEATHER STATION PROFESSOR JUDELSON
PLACE PROFESSOR JUDELSON
PATH PROFESSOR JUDELSON
THRESHOLD PROFESSOR JUDELSON
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10-15
16-23
24-31
32-39
40-45
46-47
48-49
50-51
52-53
54-55
BORDER PLAZAS
The Idea Root Movement Technicals Collection A connection between two cities are important. Lifestyle is greatly affected between the cities of Puerto Palomas, Mexico and Columbus, New Mexico. These cities share not only their climate, but residents. Women gave birth in the city of Columbus due to the scarcity of hospitals in Palomas, allowing the born infant to be dual citizens granting better education in the United States. Upon crossing the border into the states, many children become victims of crime and are used for smuggling drugs. This border station will not only service a better security system, but a market to accomodate the three mile stretch of dryland between the two cities. 04
PROFESSOR KREVLIN
Root & Movement
Circulation
Rejection
Cars
trucks BORDER PLAZAS
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Technicals
United States Mexico
Roof plan
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PROFESSOR KREVLIN
BORDER PLAZAS
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United States
Mexico
Plan
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PROFESSOR KREVLIN
Collection
WATER COLLECTION
STAINLESS STEEL CANOPY GUTTER
ONYX PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS
STAINLESS STEEL TUBE (WELDED) STAINLESS STEEL COLUMNN
BORDER PLAZAS
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city block
PARTNER: SEWINA LEE
The Idea Vision Transformation Comparison Technicals Working with CUNY Lehman College, the school is in need of dormitories. The task is to design an in campus dormitory using their current soccer field as the site. Lehman College often holds community based events within their campus thus having a connection with the community. Using this idea of a community based campus, the dormitories have individual housing unit facades, but are clusters of houses combined into one unit. The location of the dormitory is on the Western end of the field using the longer end as an advantage creating a City Block. 10
PROFESSOR COLLINS
Site Plan
scale: 1/8� = 1’
Vision
Current Lehman Collge Campus Outline
Proposed Lehman Collge Campus Outline
CITY BLOCK
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Total Floors: 3 Location: CUNY Lehman College Campus
Transformation x1
Adjacent
ADJACENT
x2
CUTS
SHIFT
SIMPLIFY
SETBAC
Merged Clustered Units 3 ENTRANCES ADJACENT
Shift
SHIFT
CUTS
SIMPLIFY
SETBACK
Stoop Entrance SHIFT
Cuts
CUTS
SIMPLIFY
SETBACK
Ground Level Entrance CUTS
Simplify
SIMPLIFY
SETBACK
SETBACK
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Merge
MERGE
Stoop Entrance (Setback)
Setback
PLIFY
SETBACK
MERGE
PROFESSOR COLLINS
MERGE
MERGE
M
railing
field
yard
terrace
over hang
table
stoop
tree
bench
campus path campus path
railing
field
yard
terrace
over hang
table
stoop
bench
tree
building across
fence
interior stairs
railing stoop
street tree trash can
street
Comparison
Typical Row House Section
Dormitory Section A
Dormitory Section B
CITY BLOCK
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Technicals
Ground Floor (undergrad)
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PROFESSOR COLLINS
Typical Floor (undergrad)
Ground Floor (grad)
Second Floor (grad)
Dormitory Section D scale: 1/8” = 1’
CITY BLOCK
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TOPOGRAPHIC EXTENSION
PARTNER: CHANGYOUL HAN
The Idea Topography Organizing Extension Technicals Working alongside a client, the principal of The Harlem School of the Arts or HSA for short, the task is to renovate the school from a recessed state back from the 1964 to a more inviting environment. With the site placed and built with a Brutalistic thinking, the school is compared with to a stone and feather. The existing as the stone with a new roof as the feather, a blanketing form extending and reconnecting the topography bringing back the natural landscape.
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PROFESSOR LLONCH
Topography
Site Locale
Extended Topography
Topography As A Roof TOPOGRAPHIC EXTENSION
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Organization
Extension
Program Distribution
20 ft.
16 ft.
12 ft.
8 ft.
4 ft.
0 ft. Bathroom & Office
Cafeteria
Dance & Performance
Gallery
Art Studio
Program Heights
Public Area
HSA Schooling
HSA School Activities Dance &Music Program
Gathering &Mezzanine
Dance
Gathering
Fine Arts & Act Program
Art
Public Area
Increase of Natural
Building Programs 18
PROFESSOR LLONCH
Technicals
Structural Diagram TOPOGRAPHIC EXTENSION
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Third Floor
Second Floor Existing
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PROFESSOR LLONCH
First Floor
Elevation
Section TOPOGRAPHIC EXTENSION
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Section
Section
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PROFESSOR LLONCH
Section
TOPOGRAPHIC EXTENSION
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BACKYARD PARK
The Idea Site Collection Technicals Pitched roofs direct inside the site and using the idea of a walkway system, it will activate the site by: collecting water, connecting people, irrigating plants, and create a park, and possibly urban planning. By introducing two parties: student and family housing this acts as the starting point to establish community within the site. These two structures open up and give access to the new “Backyard Park�. 24
PROFESSOR VOLKMANN
Site
Water Collection
Irrigation BACKYARD PARK
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Collection
Section A
A B Section B C
D
Section C
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PROFESSOR VOLKMANN
Section D
Technicals
Legend 1. Living Room 2. Kitchen 3. Dining Room 4. Restroom 5. Bedroom 6. Closet 7. Balcony 8. Garden Shed 9. Bicycle Storage 10. Grocery Pickup 11. Bar
7 3
7 2
3
2
1 6
4 4
4
1 5
5
Second Floor
4 4 8
4 6
5 5
6
9 11 10
5
Third Floor
First Floor
BACKYARD PARK
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Elevation
37’-6”
32’-6”
33’-6”
26’-3”
20’-0”
12’-0” 8’-6”
Elevation 28
PROFESSOR VOLKMANN
Section
Section BACKYARD PARK
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Section
Section 30
PROFESSOR VOLKMANN
BACKYARD PARK
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POOL HOUSE
The Idea Collision Wrap Technicals
The convergence of neighboring buildings creates a lobby space, a social gathering, for the swimming pool facility. Through the connection of both buildings, the lobby allows an easy access point for service to all the facilities and the exceptional view of the pool from above; as well as the ground level for featuring the exposure of the pool outside.
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PROFESSOR HARITOS
The Collision
The Factors
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tio
c ne
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Co
Fit n Lo ess ck e Sw rs im mi ng
Fitne ss Offic e
The Extension
Galle
ry
POOL HOUSE
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Wrap
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PROFESSOR HARITOS
DN
Technicals
3
Legend
DN
1
1. Gym Class 2. Aerobics 3. Yoga 4. Terrace 5. Lockers 6. Meeting Rooms 7. Office 8. Concession Stand 9. Swimming Pool 10. Gallery 11. Public View
2 1 DN
4
1
4
Third Floor
UP DN
DN
5
8
UP UP
5 DN
7
Second Floor
6
POOL HOUSE
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DN UP
Legend
UP UP
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10
DN
1. Gym Class 2. Aerobics 3. Yoga 4. Terrace 5. Lockers 6. Meeting Rooms 7. Office 8. Concession Stand 9. Swimming Pool 10. Gallery 11. Public View
Mezzanine Level
UP
UP
9
UP DN
10 11
First Floor
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PROFESSOR HARITOS
Elevation
Section POOL HOUSE
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Elevation
Section 38
PROFESSOR HARITOS
POOL HOUSE
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YOUTH CENTER
The Idea 3 Layers Lights Use Technicals
Designing the building for the community, a youth center designated to help the community bringing life into the neighborhood of West Harlem. A stepping pattern is formed through analysis of sound in the adjacent roads, used to distinguish the private and public areas from top to bottom and noisy to calm respectively. Commercial
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Industrial
PROFESSOR DI ORONZO
Residential
3 Layers
Lights
Traffic More
Less
Slope High
Low
Skylight Overlay
Levels mirror
Public Access Public
Semi-Private
Private
YOUTH CENTER
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Use Bedrooms Kitchen Restroom Living Room Office
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PROFESSOR DI ORONZO
Technicals
DN
UP
UP
UP
Roof Plan
DN
UP
UP
UP
DN
Third Floor
YOUTH CENTER
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DN
DN
DN
UP
Second Floor
DN
UP
Ground Floor
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PROFESSOR DI ORONZO
Elevation
Section
Elevation
YOUTH CENTER
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GARDEN TOOL
Choosing a garden tool to study its aspects and use; understanding the basic manuevers and spaces required to use the common tool. Exploring and experimenting the use of the saw allows an understanding of the tool and how it was designed to be used.
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PROFESSOR DI ORONZO
GARDEN TOOL
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WEATHER STATION
Located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, this weather station is used to capture and record the speed and direction of wind. With a wide open area, wind is a huge factor. And because of this, a pendulum like device is installed within the building to measure wind. This pendulum is extruded and exposed to the outside through the roof. The interior end with ink and the exterior a palm shape mechanism, the pendulum move and records the direction and velocity of the wind. 48
PROFESSOR JUDELSON
WEATHER STATION
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PLACE
Within two locations, a starting point and a destination, also known as path, lies place. Place is a checkpoint or a zone leading to a climatic expereience of an adventure. In this project the climax is the comparison of two completely different environments. Thresholds are found within the place, separating between the two different zones. The center piece, known as the slide is the sudden drop from the top to the bottom where the top is the more active location while below is the relaxation area shown with horizontal planes.
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PROFESSOR JUDELSON
PLACE
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PATH
Between thresholds, paths are drawn. From the starting point to the end point, the destination is the goal. The path here is an obstacle course connecting one threshold to the other. Traveling from one point to the next, destination points A and B, from bottom to top. There are many intersections allowing many different possibilities to occur. The understanding of stairs are critical.
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PROFESSOR JUDELSON
PATH
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THRESHOLD
Creation of a form that separates into different quadrants. Within these quadrants, there are many obstacles leading towards the exit, the goal. The division of quadrants are formed by pillars providing guidance to move forward into the continuous journey.
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PROFESSOR JUDELSON
THRESHOLD
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